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Show THE HA2TSON METHODS. Mrs. Carrie .Tames was full- justified in her so-called "roast" of County Attorney At-torney Hanson in tho Third District Court on "Wcdnr-sdn3 where she ex-)osed ex-)osed his methods of getting what, he supposed lo be "testimony" in n'oase then pending. Dr. Francis P. Kichards was charged with illegal praclice, Mrs. James being the victim of that practice. prac-tice. She, however, promptly and emphatically em-phatically disclaimed on the witness stand anything improper or illegnl in her relations with Dr. Richards. She stated that tho County Attorney visited her while she was in tho county jail when she was sick and "wormed a statement out of her," telling her that she could, not go to tho hospital unless she answered the questions propounded to her. Further, she declared that "shei was so sick at tho time and so weak from what she had undergone that she hardly knew what she was saying.''' No wonder the scene, when Mrs. James made this ptatcmont, created a sensation sensa-tion in court. Tt appears from Mrs. James's statement that the County Attorney At-torney was not content to rely upon the voluntan testimony of the Witness, but that ho look advantage of her and undertook un-dertook to get from her, and did get from her while she was sick, weak, and distracted, a statement which, when she was in her normal condition of mind and body, she absolutely repudiated. repudi-ated. That such action on the part of the County Attorney was unprofessional and reprehensible in tho highest, degree, de-gree, goes without saying. Nothing more contemptible, unwarranted, and indecent could bo imagined than this sort of procurement of misleading statements state-ments on tho part of tho County Attorn At-torn oj'. At The same time, it is quite in lino with other procedure That ho is known to have indulged in. In tho Sheets case he consorted with criminals, helped them to hatch up lies, procured suborned les-Union', les-Union', helped one criminal to patch up a plausible story by leaving with him for his iTfcrsual. a typewritten copy of the testimony of another criminal in tho samo case, so that this second criminal "could iniprovo upon the first criminal's story, that being too defective defect-ive for tho purpose which tho official conspirators bad in view. He approached policemen who were working under Sheets, promising them immunity if they would swear to lies against Sheets, and in every way undertook to manufacture manu-facture perjured 'tcsiimonj- against the police chief. This sensational incident, in which' Mrs. .'Jnmes came off with flying colors, col-ors, and the County Attorney appeared as tho whipped cur, appears to bo niero-1.T niero-1.T typical instanco of his methods. He and his fellow conspirators in using, us-ing, the machinery of justice for the protection of criminals and tho furtherance furth-erance of criminal conspiracies, have become be-come nn offense in the nostrils of the public. Nothing approaching 'tho degraded de-graded rottenness shown in tho official conspiracy, of which Hrfnson was the head, lias ever been known in official life anywhere. His term of office if) now fast drawing to a close, and it is iucouccivablo that such a character ns ho should over again bo entrusted by tho peoplo of this county with any official of-ficial position in their gift. |